Fountain-pen.



FOUNTAIN PEN. l l APPLICATION FILED DBO. 21I 1907.

` JACQUES BUSTANOBY, OF NEW YORIQN. Y.

FOUNTAIN-PEN.

Specification of Iletters Patent.

Patented :rime 2, 190s.

Application led December 21, 1907. Serial Nou'yil.`

To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JACQUES BUsTANoBY, a citizen of the French Republic, resident oi the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State `of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain- Pens, of which the following is aspecification.

M y invention relates to a double pen which I enables the user to write with ink of diiierent character, for instance red and black.

The object ol the invention is to securely connect the pens both while in use, vand when unused, and to so construct the double pen that it will be compact in either position, and not exposed to breakage when notlin use. l

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the double pen in the writing position with parts in sections. Fig. 2 shows them in the position of rest or non-use in connection with a double cap. Fig. 3 i's a side elevation ol' the article shown in Fig. 2; and F 4 to 8 illustrate additional forms of 'my invention.

The detail construction of the fountain pens may be of any usualor approved character except in so tar as they have been modi fied for the purpose oi my invention.

shown in Fig. 1,

ln the form shown in Figs. 1, Q and 3, the two pens A andvB are practically alike, except that the barrel of one of them is reduced at the end opposite to the nib, to lit a socket B which is provided at the corresponding end of the other pen B, beyond the partition B2 which in the drawing forms the end ,wall or bottom wall of the inkreservoir. Thus the pens may be fitted together end'to end as so that each ot' the two pens is available for writing. iilling the two reservoirs or barrels with ink of di'llerent character, as black and red, oi' purple, the user is enabled to write in different styles or colors by simply reversing the pen. Or bot-h reservoirs might contain thesaine kind of ink, .the diiference being merely in thecharacter of the nib, as, an ordinary pen on.one side, and a stub pen on the other. When the pens are not in use, each of them is protected by one of the sections C, D of a double cap, which sections may be of substantially the same construction as an ordinary fountain pen cap, but they are connected with each other so that both pens when not in use will form a unitary article with the combined cap. Another important feature is, that both ni s point in the same direction when contained in the respective caps, so that when the closed double pen' 1s put in a'pocket with the ca upward, no leakage of ink is to be feare ln Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the connection between the two cap sections C, D, tis eiiected by means of a plate or clip E otproper olas ticity, said clip being provided at its free end witha cylindrical retaining portion E which may be sprung over the edge of a garment pocket, or over a bar sewed or otherwise secured within such pocket. These clipl and bar features, being capable of use in various other connections, are more fully brought out and claimedin another application for a patent filed by me concurrently herewith.

In the construction described above, the two pens are slightly different at the ends opposite to the nibs. For the sake of simplify; ing and cheapening the manufacture, it might be desirable to make both`pens alike. Four ways of accomplishing this are shown in the drawings. ln Fig. 4, each of the pens is constructed like the en B of Figs. 1 and 2, that is, e "h of them lias a socket B at the end oppos sito the nib, tition or end wall B2. Into these soc ets may be fitted-'the connecting piece F so that in the writing. position the nibs will be at the ends of the combined holder, just as they are in Fig. 1. 'In Fig. 5 the connecting pliece F is tubular throughout its length or at its ends, thus` forming two sockets to receive exteriorly of the areast at the ends of the. pens A, each of which in this case is orf practically the same constructionc tion illustrated in Fi s. 6 and 7, 1 .am enabled to make both pens a ike yet avoid the use of a separate connecting piece such as F or F. The two pens A, (being similar to the pen A of Figs. 1 and 2) when in Ithe writing position have their rear ends inserted in the two cap sections C', D which are brought into alinement. The two cap sections are pivoted at C2, D2, respectively to a just described, or into the paralle osition shown in Fig. 7, to receive the nib en( s` of the pens when not in use. 'A clip may be pro vided in connection with this double cap, the clip E2 being preferably connected with the bridge G so that. they may be swung into the alinin position extension of the other lines) with their nibs pointingv in oppes1te bridge G et the center G. either lixediy, or by 'a pivotal' joint to lelloW 'the clip to be folded lengthwise of the cap when the pen is in the Writing' position.

n Fig. 8 the cep'C, D is presumed to be of exactly the seine construction as in Figs'. 2 and 3 that is such has e elip of the seme character ais shown in said figures. The two pens H are alike, sind are connected at their reet ends by e transverse pivot H which enables them to be placed. other 'within the ca (es indicated by Adotted lines) o1' elined so ti at one en Will form an directions, as in the other forms of my invention'.-

I claim as my invention.

l. 'The combination of tWo Pens arranged in elinement with eaeh other 1n the Writing (as lndieated. by full' eee/.13e

position, with theii ni'os extending in opposite directions, ay double cap for holding the pens perellel when not inuse,'witl1 theii` nibs pomting in the seine direction, and aclip connected with seid'double oep and disposed symmetrically with espeet to a line drawn centrally between the oep sections.

2. The oornbinetionf'of two pens one of which has e socket at the end'opposite to the nib, to repeive the corresponding end of the othei' pen so that the pens will be elined with l their m'bs extending in opposite directions,

and e double oep for holdingtlie pens parallel whenfnot in use. v

. .Signed this 9th dey of December 1907.

JACQUES BUSTANOBY.

Witnesses:

JOHN Lo'iifi JOHN A. KEHLENBECK. 

